Buyback yield (TTM)
3.11%
Shareholder yield (TTM)
3.69%
5Y share count change
-30.8%
Buyback spend (TTM)
$1.59B
Cumulative buybacks
$7.38B
Key takeaways
- Vistra (VST) repurchased about $1.59B of stock over the trailing twelve months.
- Diluted share count is down 30.8% over the last ~5 fiscal years — buybacks are net-shrinking the share base.
- TTM buyback ÷ stock-based-comp ratio of 9.07× — repurchases more than cover SBC dilution.
- TTM repurchases used about 192% of free cash flow remaining after dividends.
Dividend & buyback yield over time for Vistra (VST)
Stacked annual yields — buyback yield (TTM cash repurchases ÷ market cap) plus dividend yield from the same fiscal-year-end key-metrics period — show how total cash return per dollar of equity has evolved.
Diluted vs basic shares (annual) for Vistra (VST)
Diluted weighted-average shares are the EPS denominator — a falling count means buybacks are outpacing SBC dilution.
Year-over-year change in diluted shares for Vistra (VST)
Green is fewer shares vs the prior fiscal year (net repurchase); red is growth (dilution). The earliest year shown has no prior year to compare.
Cash buyback spend over time for Vistra (VST)
Latest: $1.03B
Overview
The 2025 reading of Vistra (VST) buyback spend is $1.03B – declined 18.8% year-over-year.
Between 2022 and 2025, Vistra buyback spend plunged 47.3%, falling from $1.95B to $1.03B.
2022 marks the peak buyback spend at $1.95B, with the historical low of $0.00 recorded in 2012.
Vistra Buyback Spend 2025: $1.03B
Vistra buyback spend in 2025 was $1.03B, declined 18.8% below 2024.
Vistra Buyback Spend 2024: $1.27B
2024's buyback spend for Vistra came in at $1.27B, edged up 1.7% from 2023.
Vistra Buyback Spend 2023: $1.25B
Vistra posted buyback spend of $1.25B in 2023, plunged 36.1% below 2022.
Vistra Buyback Spend 2022: $1.95B
In 2022, Vistra reported buyback spend of $1.95B, surged 313.8% from 2021. This figure represents the highest annual value in the available history.
Vistra Buyback Spend 2021: $471.00M
Vistra buyback spend in 2021 was $471.00M.
See more financial history for Vistra (VST).
Buyback, SBC & dilution history
Buyback spend, SBC, net dilution effect, and share count.
| 2025 | $1.03B | $113.00M | $915.00M | 1.88% | 0.34B | -3.6% | |
| 2024 | $1.27B | $100.00M | $1.17B | 2.70% | 0.35B | -6.0% | |
| 2023 | $1.25B | $77.00M | $1.17B | 9.20% | 0.38B | -11.2% | |
| 2022 | $1.95B | $63.00M | $1.89B | 21.47% | 0.42B | -12.4% | |
| 2021 | $471.00M | $47.00M | $424.00M | 4.41% | 0.48B | -1.8% | |
| 2020 | $0.00 | $65.00M | −$65.00M | — | 0.49B | -1.8% | |
| 2019 | $656.00M | $47.00M | $609.00M | 5.85% | 0.50B | -1.0% | |
| 2018 | $763.00M | $73.00M | $690.00M | 6.64% | 0.50B | +18.0% | |
| 2017 | $0.00 | $19.00M | −$19.00M | — | 0.43B | +0.0% | |
| 2016 | $0.00 | $3.00M | −$3.00M | — | 0.43B | +0.0% | |
| 2015 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | 0.43B | 0.0% | |
| 2014 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | 0.43B | 0.0% | |
| 2013 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — | 0.43B | 0.0% | |
| 2012 | $0.00 | $4.00M | −$4.00M | — | 0.43B | — |
- 2025$1.03B
- 2024$1.27B
- 2023$1.25B
- 2022$1.95B
- 2021$471.00M
- 2020$0.00
- 2019$656.00M
- 2018$763.00M
- 2017$0.00
- 2016$0.00
- 2015$0.00
- 2014$0.00
- 2013$0.00
- 2012$0.00
Buybacks vs stock-based compensation for Vistra (VST)
Annual cash repurchases set against stock-based compensation. Coverage above 1× means buybacks fully offset the equity dilution from SBC. TTM coverage: 9.07×.
Buybacks vs dividends (share of cash returned) for Vistra (VST)
How Vistra splits cash returned to shareholders between dividends and buybacks.
Sector peers by buyback spend
Companies in the same sector as Vistra, ranked by their latest buyback spend.
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Buyback capacity (TTM)
Free cash flow minus dividends paid versus actual TTM repurchases — the headroom bar shows how much of post-dividend FCF is still being deployed elsewhere.
Headroom $825.00M (TTM FCF − TTM dividends, clamped at zero).
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